It depends on where you live , tap water in Asia countries are generally not recommended to drink unless you boiled it first .
For instance , I live in Tainan,Taiwan and I know tap water around here IS DANGEROUS with high density of multiple heavy metal materials (no shit the water was YELLOW when I filled a bottle) .
Then apparently Satan himself isn't doing the job ... wait I don't think I'm gonna argue any further since I'm lack of belief myself and anything related to religions isn't solved at the moment so let's not argue any further , to save the trouble.
Question : Is the Abstract Real ?
Answer : Yes
Similar subject : Religion
Reason : Both are something that "may or may not existed" , and lots of people worshiped religion because they think , claimed or hoped they're real , so I think the same goes to the Abstract .
What bothers me ... hmm ... religion related ? not really ... does extremists count ? I'm ok with beliefs , its just some people who like to force it to the others ... that's the part I don't like ... and I'm fine with the rest though ...
They should be punished THEN helped , the meaning of punishment is for them to know it's not right , although you can just left them there after the punishment , but they might not learn their lessons and makes the same mistakes again .
Always give them another chance , but there won't be a third .
"Oh, my son promised to never act like that,"<--- Believing this without any doubt it's their parents fault , whoever believe in this is simple careless to their kids , how can they be so sure these kiddos won't lie ? They need to keep an eye on their children's behavior , and help them knowing the difference between games and real-life , isn't that what parents and teachers are for ? To keep them from going the wrong way ?
Where is that topic when you need it ... anyway I once looked into a topic says that two cars crashed each other because they wanted to play " Need for speed " in real life , so tell me can you define violent video games when something like that happened ? Need for speed is a racing game, it doesn't contain any blood and gore , yet it caused two grown ups to crashed their cars in real life , so can banning violent video games make difference ? NO !
You should help your kids to tell the difference ! If violent games affect undeveloped minds easily then I'd be a serial killer right now because I've played games like Raiden , Metal Slug , Half-Life and much more of these "violent" games
when I was 7 , but no I'm not and I'm still here and can tell the difference .
Anything competitive can't avoid violence , banning these games will only slow down undeveloped mind's from growing up , it wont outright stop it , besides "friendly competition" is used to pacify those who might be aggressive , to tell them not to lose their manners even if they lost .
These young minds just need someone to teach them to tell the difference from virtual world and real world , isn't that what parents and teachers are for ? To help them getting know the difference .
Edit: I clicked the wrong button , this comment is used to dispute above .
Guns are hard to find in my country , but I support this simply because do you want to risk your own life while hiding and calling/hoping there's police nearby ?
Life can be lost in a moment's notice especially in conflicts and all we can do is defend ourselves , what if the bad guys have firearms too ? Are you gonna fight with bare hands when there's no other way to run ?
By the way let me tell you something funny , our media is so stupid that they've once said the P90 is a sniper rifle (with a picture of the gun) , which totally disappoints me .
I don't want to believe in that simply because if they do exist then they should be remembered as history , not worshiped , if you tell me they've done something to the humanity then people who made a major difference in the world should also be worshiped (Ex. Einstein and Hitler) because they made a big difference to the world and they accelerate the evolution (Ex. war and invention) .
And what does it really matter when you are born after all that ?
If you'd tell me we must not forgot them all and remember what they've done then all this religions is nothing but history itself , but with a goal that can't be achieved anyway .
Another reason is I didn't see any of it's existence with my own eyes and I don't want to be brainwashed , persuaded , tricked or even forced into believe it , I might believe it if it does happen in my dreams , but until then , no .
I'm on a tropical island and I tell you that summer is hot ! Way too hot !
Plus the damp environment is just killing me !
I almost fell off once just because the floor is so wet that it's like covered in a layer of water !
And every time when sunlight comes in it reflects on the floor , it's so bright that I don't even need the lights because the whole room was lit up like a Christmas tree !
Everything's so shiny in that room , and the worse ? THAT'S MY ROOM ! AND ONLY THAT ROOM GETS LIT UP EVERY TIME DURING THE DAY !
It seems useless in most cases but I think fashion can play a tiny part on imagination which might help inspiring you to make things better in your possession , create things that you don't have , or even invent something that never existed before .
But if you think you don't really need it at all , then what else do we argue ?
Religion isn't crazy , its the people who carry it out , or even enforce it to the others , that's what makes atheists think religion is crazy .
I'll be very pissed if someone yells " You don't believe in god and you deserve a painful death in hell ! " at me , in which I might punch him with my fists .
No , just ... no , because it requires you to worship " the very high lord " , and the ultimate goal is to become " immortal " , so its pretty much like anything else , you believe in something (forced or not) and worship it , then you end up telling yourself its with you when you die , just another illusion created by the past , well to me anyway .
Edit: I'll be fine with it so long as no one forced me to believe it .
No,I never saw someone panhandling like this , Asian panhandlers prefer to fake themselves as disabled , panhandlers I saw usually lying prone with a bowl in front of them and looked like something very bad happened to them , when you go near one he/she may stare at you like they are gonna die or something .
One day I threw a coin into the bowl and hide myself to the corner , then I saw the panhandler , who appears to have lost all limbs and lying down , suddenly get up and moved his arms and legs out of his clothes and walk away , which pisses me of real good , guess I'll just donate to charity ...
Does God exist ? No, well at least I don't think so , but does Jesus exist ? Maybe , but he should be remembered as history and not advocated into beliefs , people should let go of this because its just another illusion to make you believe there's is another exit or make you feel like you are not alone , but in fact your soul dies with you when your time comes , and all you can do is just close your eyes and wait for it , surely you can hold your family's hands and pray , but that does not do anything but to make everyone even sadder and you are still all alone .
Maybe the fact was that "they just want to remember him forever" then people took it the wrong way and made him God and started worshiping him .
Why can't he just be remembered ? why does he have to be worshiped?
I asked my mother(who believes in Buddha) the same,but she replies
"because some people actually saw them,gave them a hand when they're in the need of it .",then she asked me not discuss this any further because this may offend someone .
So should I believe anything just because some people may or may not experienced ? I don't think so , you can't be serious just to believe it because your friends or neighborhoods told you so, because if you do then you aren't believing anything but following blindfold .
I'll believe all this when I actually see it with my own eyes , awake , not heard it or saw it from some people or books , or even from the dreams .
(Please forgive me if there's any mistakes in my comment , English wasn't my first language)
Call Of Duty used to be good until they screwed it up with modern warfare series (COD 4 included) , its just that ... like it lost its ways ... things looked liked all the same , I still remember the first COD I ever played (and I was like 9 years old , my uncle bought me the game , I can't even read English at that time because I'm an Asian), in the level "Red Square" where suddenly all the AI rushed out like crazies while the music is playing , its the only level that actually make me feel like I was there , such feeling was lost right after modern warfare (WAW was alright, but its buggy and laggy as well) , the first COD was also one of the reason that motivated me to learn English , but now its like nothing but a soap opera nowadays .
Why yes , people are still killing each other everyday , everywhere , for their own good or not , and there is always something dying every second its just that we don't know what , when or where . Maybe the process can be different but the outcome was all the same .
